Nampo Harvest Day: The rise of a global agricultural megastar
The very first Nampo Harvest Day, then called the Sampi Harvest Day, took place on 7 and 8 June 1967 on the farm Donkerhoek in the Bloemfontein district.
Two hundred farmers attended the 1967 event. The current event is owned and hosted by Grain SA. While its format may have changed over the past few decades, the harvest day’s objective has stayed the same, says Toit Wessels, Grain SA’s assistant manager for marketing and Nampo.
“Nampo aims to bring together agricultural suppliers and producers,” he explains.
According to Dr Dirk Strydom, research
